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House Stimulus Bill Includes New Funds for Afterschool
Great news – The House Appropriations Committee economic stimulus package includes new funds for afterschool. In fact, the package contains all of the recommendations the Afterschool Alliance put forth to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi last November regarding targeted investments to help struggling afterschool programs, participants and their…
Author: Afterschool Alliance
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Obama orders Guantanamo closure
Original Source US President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as well as all overseas CIA detention centres for terror suspects. Signing the orders, Mr Obama said the US would continue to fight terror, but maintain “our values and…
Author: BBC News
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The Card Before You Leave
Local campaigning leads to improved service for those at risk The Card Before You Leave scheme was initially recommended in 2005 as part of an independent review into the death of a young man called Danny McCartan. In April 2006, frustrated by a lack of…
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Expansion of National Colleges Study Funded
RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside researchers have received a three-year, $390,060 grant from the Spencer Foundation to expand and update the Colleges & Universities 2000 study, which investigates patterns of continuity and change in four-year higher education institutions in the United States. A research team headed…
Author: University of California, Riverside
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A year later, state assesses justice without death penalty
Rudy Larini Star-Ledger Staff State Sen. Raymond Lesniak likes to share important moments in life with friends and family through photographs on his holiday greeting cards. Four years ago, they featured Lesniak in top hat and tails as grand marshal of New York’s Pulaski Day…
Author: The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
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Tracking a New Generation
Recruiting starts next month for the largest long-term study of children’s health ever conducted in the U.S. by Claudia Kalb American kids are about to get some much-needed attention. Next month, after 10 years of strategizing, researchers will finally start recruiting participants for the largest…
Author: Newsweek
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Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities
In the face of the nation’s worst financial crisis since 1932, foundations are bracing to cope with assets that plunged as a result of Wall Street’s decline. New numbers from New Mexico suggest that foundations should turn to the underutilised strategy of supporting advocacy, organising…
Author: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
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KIPP Success Cited, With Caveats
A review of research on the high-profile KIPP network finds promising academic results compared with traditional public schools, though it argues that “popular accounts” have at times overhyped the schools’ apparent success. Students who enter and stay in the Knowledge Is Power Program schools tend…
Author: Education Week
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Summit to explore school dropout triggers
by JAMES HAUG Why children quit school is a complex issue rooted in poverty and parental apathy, said experts who will speak at a dropout prevention conference today. According to Editorial Projects in Education, Nevada’s graduation rate of 45 percent is the lowest in the…
Author: Las Vegas Review-Journal
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The State of Adolescent Health Services: How the System Fails Young People
In the United States, we are about to engage in a potentially historic debate about long-overdue reform of our inadequate health care system, and big change may be on the way. That is exactly what we need because our current system is failing the very…
Author: Gara LaMarche
